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golden

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Synonyms and Antonyms of golden

1 having qualities which inspire hope

this may be your golden moment to impress a baseball scout, so don't blow it

Synonyms of golden

auspicious, bright, encouraging, fair, heartening, hopeful, likely, optimistic, promising, propitious, rose-colored, roseate, rosy, upbeat

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cheering, comforting, reassuring, soothing

assured, confident, decisive, doubtless, positive, sure, unhesitating

beamish, bullish, eupeptic

favorable, good

Near Antonyms of golden

cheerless, comfortless

doubtful, dubious, uncertain

bearish, grim, negative, unfavorable

funereal, glum, gray (also grey), miserable, wretched

Antonyms of golden

bleak, dark, depressing, desperate, discouraging, disheartening, dismal, downbeat, dreary, gloomy, hopeless, inauspicious, pessimistic, unencouraging, unlikely, unpromising, unpropitious

2 marked by conspicuously full and rich sounds or tones

sang in a golden alto that filled the concert hall

Synonyms of golden

orotund, plangent, resonant, resounding, reverberant, reverberating, reverberative, ringing, rotund, round, sonorous, vibrant

Words Related to golden

deep, full, mellifluent, mellifluous, mellow, plummy, rich

loud, powerful, stentorian, thundering, thunderous

Near Antonyms of golden

cavernous, hollow

faint, low, murmurous, muted, smothered, soft, weak

thin, tinny

3 marked by vigorous growth and well-being especially economically

the golden age of industrialization

Synonyms of golden

booming, boomy, flourishing, halcyon, healthy, lush, palmy, prospering, prosperous, roaring, successful, thriving

Words Related to golden

affluent, moneyed (also monied), opulent, rich, substantial, wealthy, well-heeled, well-off, well-to-do

comfortable

Near Antonyms of golden

declining, dying, failing, floundering, languishing, struggling

bankrupt, bankrupted, insolvent

Antonyms of golden

depressed, unprosperous, unsuccessful

4 of a pale yellow or yellowish brown color

a golden Labrador

Synonyms of golden

blond (or blonde), fair, flaxen, sandy, straw, tawny

Words Related to golden

ocherous (or ochreous)

ash-blond (or ash-blonde), blondish, strawberry blonde (or strawberry blond), towheaded

gold, light, white

Near Antonyms of golden

black-a-vised, brown, brunet (or brunette), dark, olive, swart, swarthy

black, ebony, raven

5 pointing toward a happy outcome

that new job is a golden opportunity

Synonyms of golden

auspicious, bright, encouraging, favorable, heartening, hopeful, promising, propitious

Words Related to golden

fortunate, fortuitous, happy, lucky, providential

advantageous, beneficial, profitable, prosperous, salutary

Near Antonyms of golden

unfortunate, unhappy, unlucky

calamitous, catastrophic, disastrous, fatal, ruinous

baleful, dark, dire, direful, doomy, foreboding, gloomy, ill, ill-boding, menacing, minatory, ominous, portentous, sinister, threatening

Antonyms of golden

dim, discouraging, disheartening, futureless, hopeless, inauspicious, unfavorable, unpromising, unpropitious

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